Volume 2

Algeria / [prepared under the direction of K. Mason].

  • Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division.
Date:
1943-1944
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Algeria / [prepared under the direction of K. Mason]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with 26 lecturers and 116 students. ‘There is a three years’ course, and the examination at the end, the Brevet supérieur, is taken after a year’s practice in teaching. Technical instruction is given in many of the primary schools for girls, and in some of the boys’ schools the pupils are apprenticed to certain crafts. In agricultural districts they are given practical instruction in agriculture. There are also apprentice workshops for gitls, which permit them at the end of the course to live at home and gain a living from their craft. The workshops of the Sceurs Blanches specialize in the teaching of basket-work and carpet- making. Certain establishments under the direction of the Governor- General teach masonry, carpentry, pottery, carpet-making, and other similar trades. For natives above school age there are technical centres, divided into agricultural and industrial sections, at Philippe- ville, Guelma, and elsewhere. PuBLIC HEALTH In the nineteenth century there was little medical assistance organized by the French, and only one Moslem benevolent society founded in Algiers in 1857. At the beginning of the twentieth century the situation was taken in hand, and in 1903 the first infirm- aries were built from small sums of money added to the taxes paid by the natives, and later by similar sums raised by the communes; but the money available for health schemes in Algeria has always been small, especially in comparison with certain French colonies. The programme for 1930-1935 provided for an expenditure of five million francs in the departments of Algiers and Oran, and two million francs in the department of Constantine, to set up auxiliary hospitals for the natives. In 1939 the number of hospitals of all kinds (civil, military, and auxiliary) was 174 (department of Algiers 59, department of Oran 38, department of Constantine 54, and the Territoires du Sud 23). Homes for the aged, infirm, and incurables are attached to the civil hospitals. There are eleven in the department of Algiers, six in the department of Oran, and seven in the depart- ment of Constantine. Special hospitals for natives (auxiliary hos- pitals) were at first established only by the Peres Blancs; their number has greatly increased in recent years, rising to ninety in 1939, each with from twenty to thirty beds, and they have now been taken over by the State. Medical assistance outside the hospitals is given in a variety of